In regards to vestigial structures I am referring to organs such as the appendix or bones and limbs similar to what is occasionally found in whales. Essentially organs, limbs etc that are believed to once have been more developed in ancestral species that have lost their primary functions but still remain in the animal on a permanent basis such as the appendix or only occasionally found such the human's sixth digit.

I tend to agree with you that vestigial structures should not have needed functions. However, I have read some material that states that they can have lesser functions as their primary functions become obsolete. It seems to be somewhat confusing depending on where you read.

As far as organs used by individuals? Not really, in regards to this area I was really talking about fingers, limbs etc. It is an interesting note that i have read that there is an organ in the male nose used to detect the estrus of females that is absent in most human males, although I didn't put much research into that area.

I was unaware that the sixth digit that appears sparsely in the human population had been classified a disease. I am aware of the multi-legged frogs that gave everyone a scare a few years back that was caused by spirochetes. I will have to look further into this "sixth digit" disease.

Grisner wrote:4) Vestigial structures can have important functions? or not?

Vestigial structures, by definition, do not have function (if a function is discovered, then it is no longer considered to be vestigial). However, that does not mean that they didn't have a function in the organism's ancestors - if not, they would not have developed. And the function of a structure decreases as it is no longer needed. E.g., legs in whale ancestors were originally used for swimming, but gradually lost that function.

Grisner wrote:5) Any and all vestigial structures must come from ancestors that utilized that structure as a population, not just sparse individuals?

Yes. It would be extremely unlikely that a structure would develop in a single individual, then a huge mutation would occur to make that structure unnecessary in all of its descendants. I don't know about multiple digits in humans, but additional legs in frogs is a developmental glitch.

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."Theodosius Dobzhansky"Most people who hate the idea of evolution do so because if it was working properly, they'd be dead."Anonymous